Acknowledgements
List of figures
Introduction Late Antique Greece / Archibald Dunn
The institutional Church in Early Christian Greece / Eirini Zisimou
The Early Byzantine fortress of Velika on the coast of Kissavos, Thessaly / Stavroula Sdrolia and Sophia Didioumi
Urban and rural settlement in Early Byzantine and Attica (4th-7th centuries) Greece in the transitional period / Elli Tzavella
The Byzantine District of Gortyn (Crete) and the end of a/the ancient Mediterranean city / Enrico Zanini
Maritime routes in the Aegean (7th-9th centuries): The archaeological evidence / Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou
The seventh-century restoration of the Acheiropoietos Basilica and its significance for the urban continuity of Thessalonike during the Dark Age / Konstantinos Raptis
Some remarks on the Dark Age architecture of Hagia Sophia, Thessalonike Urban and rural revival / Sabine Feist
Bridging the Grande Brèche: Rethinking coins, ceramics, Corinth, and commerce in the centuries following AD 500 / Guy Sanders
Byzantine Butrint vis-à-vis Dark-Age Athens: A ceramic perspective / Joanita Vroom
The defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (7th-12th centuries):The flight to safety in town, countryside, and islands / Nikos D. Kontogiannis and Michael Heslop
The demographic and economic history of Byzantine Greece in the longue durée: The contribution of the pollen data / Adam Izdebski
Middle Byzantine Hierissos: Archaeological research at the entrance to Mount Athos Patronage and sacred space / Aikaterini Tsanana
Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (867-1204): The evidence of inscriptions and donor portraits / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
Church-building in the Peloponnese: Reflections of social and economic trends in the countryside in the Middle Byzantine period / Maria Papadaki
Hermits, monks, and nuns on Chalke, a small island of the Dodecanese from Early Christian to Middle Byzantine times The bureaucrat, the bishop, the farmer and the merchant / Maria Sigala
Loving the poor: Charity and justice in Middle Byzantine Greece / Teresa Shawcross
Economic strategies of landowners and peasant farmers during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Greece / Alan Harvey
The merchant in Middle Byzantine Greece / Maria Gerolymatou.